This research focuses on information security as a social state, its aspects and characteristics, information security standards, and its impact on improving the information security process. It emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of the issue of information security. Several methods are employed in this study, including formal-logical and system-structural methods, methods of generalization, and comparative law. Documentary analysis is used to examine the regulatory framework concerning information security and the main international and national information security standards. Three levels of information security are identified –personal, social, and state. It concludes that the levels differ depending on their degree within the information space.